Mini Fighter Jet High Powered Lasers

In Star Wars they had the greatest laser guns on the X-Wing Fighters as they attacked the Death Star under the command of Darth Vader, who also had his own escort fighters with laser guns. Wow, exciting indeed. Well today our United States Air Force Research Laboratory has

Airbus Airliner Interior Lighting

Airbus is trying to design an aircraft to compete with Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner. The Boeing Company’s 787 Dreamliners is a bleeding edge bird born of pure-efficiency; made and constructed in lightweight, high-tech composite materials. The Airbus’s version, a copycat plane only has wings of composite.

United States Air Force Flight Line

Have you ever been to the flight line of a military base? It is very noisy. The hum of the jet engines piloted by officers wearing wings of lead. It is serious business being in the Air Force and it costs a lot of taxpayers dollars to run those jet engines, ground equipment and thinking of the flightline lighting costs.

Aircraft Back Up Avionics Power in Case of Lightning Strike

During inclement weather aviation becomes much more serious. When you are flying in bad weather you must rely on your instruments instead of looking outside.

Powering Taxi Lights at Airports with Vibrational Energy

Many of the Nations Largest Airports use a lot of energy and when there is a black out chaos ensues. Luckily our biggest and busiest airports in the United States have back-up power for safety. If the power goes out on the grid the back-up power comes on within seconds.

Reduce Flying Stress by Using Our HEADS

Learn how to apply an easy-to-use strategy to reduce your flying stress. Applies to frequent and holiday air passengers.

Aircraft Carrier Air Funnel System

One of the most dangerous jobs in the United States Navy is to sit in an aircraft and be launched off the ship by catapault; unless you reach the proper airspeed you fall into the drink. If you fail to eject in time, you die; so although it is extremely dangerous the rules are really simple.

Verbal Commands to Fly UAVs

Autonomous Artificial Intelligent Unmanned Aerial Vehicles is not a new concept, after all Sci Fi writers have been discussing it for years. We are truly getting closer to such technologies and it may become a reality sooner than we think. The next step for unmanned vehicles whether they be on the ground, air, sea or a combination of all three, will soon work on verbal commands.

BMPs for Killing Hostile UAVs

We need to set up Best Management Practices for shooting down enemy unmanned aerial vehicles. There are many reasons for this directive for instance; we must make sure what we are shooting is really an enemy UAV and not one of our own; that it is not a friendly force craft; that it is not a civilian aircraft which happened into our net-centric security grid or kill box.

Why Do We Call UFOs; Unidentified Flying Objects?

By calling UFOs, unidentified flying objects, this presumes the object being observed is in fact “flying,” yet the definition of flying assumes the physics of flight are being used. This would therefore mean that the object is using lift as its major strategy to remain airborne.

All You Need To Know About Skydiving

Having decided to jump from a perfectly good aircraft, my next question was, Now what?So I did the research and asked as many questions as I could think of about skydiving, and there were quite a few, considering the nature of the sport. Here is what I learned.

Flexible Concrete for Runways

New Flexible concrete building materials are making waves and could be the answer to increased safety and durability for Runways at Airports. Storms, severe weather and even Hurricanes can destroy runways and airports. These valuable infrastructures must remain intact to bring regions hit with such storms back to normalcy.

Jet Lag - 5 In-flight Tips

Preparation before your departure and following a few simple steps both during your flight and after your arrival will go a long way towards eliminating the effects of jet lag. This article looks at 5 simple steps that you can take during your flight to reduce the effects of jet lag considerably.

Who's Paying for the Private Jet?

M.C. Hammer was known to have a 40 person entourage which he flew around in his chartered private jet. If he needed more room, he'd get another private jet.